Dick Cheney's reveals the secure 'undisclosed location' he went to after 9/11... his home

It was the 'secure, undisclosed location' to which Dick Cheney went in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

The then vice president was kept apart from George W. Bush for safety reasons following the terrorist attacks and the exact position of his safehouse was kept top secret.

But now the man himself has revealed just where he was holed up... his home.

Ta-da! Dick Cheney has revealed the 'undisclosed location' to which he went in the aftermath of 9/11 was actually his home

Memoir: Mr Cheney, who this week defended the use of waterboarding, revealed the 'undisclosed location' in his memoir, In My Time, which is out on August 30

Mr Cheney confirms in his new memoir 'In My Time' that some of the contemporary speculation was correct - one of his 'undisclosed locations' was his residence in north west Washington DC, the Washington Post reported.

And another was his home in Wyoming.

Mr Cheney notes that he was 'surprised by the intensity of the media interest' in the 'undisclosed location' where he was sometimes reported to be, mentioning a Saturday Night Live skit that imagined him in a cave in Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported.

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He writes that the 'undisclosed location' was much more mundane, however: the Vice President’s Residence, his home in Wyoming and, most often, Camp David.

The declaration means that, in part, Joe Biden was right.

Vice President Biden told the world in 2009 that he discovered the bunker beneath his Washington home during a tour of his new house.

Just the two of us: George Bush and Cheney were kept apart for safety reasons following the Twin Towers attacks. This picture shows the pair on September 11, 2001 in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center

Mr Biden revealed during the 2009 Gridiron Club dinner that the room was located 'behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment,' Newsweek's Eleanor Clift wrote at the time.

In his book, Mr Cheney writes that if he was at his 'undisclosed location', he could join conferences by video, according to the Washington Post.

'If I was traveling or at an undisclosed location, the president would often be briefed in the White House Situation Room, so I could join by secure videoconference,' he writes.

The memoir is dominated by the attacks of September 11, 2001, and Mr Cheney’s role in shaping the intelligence and national security response.

He recounts being flown along with his wife, Lynne, to Camp David shortly after the attacks, and a meeting there a few days later with Secretary of State Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice, then president Bush’s national security adviser.

'We were embarking on a fundamentally new policy,' Mr Cheney writes. 'There would be no easy, quick victory followed by an enemy surrender. I thought it probable that this was a conflict in which our nation would be engaged for the rest of my lifetime.'